Crossword Puzzle Number 3096 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A port in southwestern Scotland.
4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
12. Select as an alternative.
15. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
16. Tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell.
17. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
18. Any spiny succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World.
20. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
21. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
22. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
24. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
26. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A bachelor's degree in religion.
33. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
37. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
44. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
45. Ludicrously odd.
47. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge.
49. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
51. A glancing rebound.
53. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
54. (plural) Hosts or armies.
57. Without a bed.
59. The sixth month of the civil year.
60. A crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things.
62. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
63. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
65. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
67. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
70. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
74. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
75. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
79. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
80. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
82. The last (12th) month of the year.
83. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
84. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
85. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

DOWN

1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. Not only so, but.
3. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
4. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
5. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
6. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
7. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
8. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
9. (informal) Of the highest quality.
10. An ax used to slaughter cattle.
11. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. Type genus of the Pipidae.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
23. An uproarious party.
25. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
31. Stalk of a moss capsule.
32. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
34. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
35. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
36. Join the military.
38. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. Any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
48. Fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey.
50. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
52. A woman sahib.
55. Protective covering made of metal and used in combat.
56. Membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi.
58. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. A popular island resort off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan peninsula.
64. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
66. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
68. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
69. Socially incorrect in behavior.
71. A quantity of no importance.
72. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
73. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
81. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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